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The trusty love triangle gets another screen workout with "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Filmmakers have known for years that this scenario is a sure audience draw, playing on the basic human desire to find one soulmate and adding the drama of being lucky enough to find two.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Growing up a movie geek I always read the reviews in the local newspaper and would always feel a little frustrated when the reviewer obviously didna t like the type of film theya re reviewing, specifically genre titles, yet they review it anyway without admitting any bias.

On a set of "This Is It" On a set of "This Is It" Kenny Ortega taught modern Hollywood how to dance.The director of the MichaelJackson documentary, "This is It" , Ortega began his career as a choreographer and is responsible for some of the most iconic, indelible dance performances captured on film in the last 30 years.

A perky, attractive curly-haired character player and occasional lead, Annie Potts is highly adept at both sassy, deadpan wisecracks and more live wire antics.

It's a shame John Hughes didn't live to hear the New Moon soundtrack - it's a Pretty in Pink for our vampire-crazed times.

Kristy Swanson is best known for her roles in Higher Learning and as the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and this weekend she'll be in town as a guest of Crypticon Houston, which runs Friday through Sunday at the Reliant Center.

On this week's Two and a Half Men , Charlie and Alan try to hide some questionable behavior.

Gold met Roby Marshall through "Growing Pains" co-star Joanna Kerns. They have been married for over fifteen years and have four children together.

House 8/7c Fox So House is officially back on the job. Will it be just like old times? We'll find out tonight, when the patient is an African dictator who's accused of crimes against humanity.

Pretty In Pink is John Hughes's fourth outing into the world of teenagers and their issues.

Blanche Baker, left, and Molly Ringwald act in "Sixteen Candles," screening Friday night at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre as part of a John Hughes retrospective.

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BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor and comedian Andrew Dice Clay was born in Brooklyn, New York, today in 1957.

Pretty in Pink star Jon Cryer and his wife Lisa Joyner have adopted a baby daughter.

The stage act of this stand-up comedian-turned-actor reaped controversy for being over-laden with obscenities and was considered to be misogynistic by feminists and most thinking people.

It'd be a real shame if after all these years all the Psychedelic Furs are remembered for was the theme song for a John Hughes movie.

The majority of attendees at the House of Blues concert Tuesday seemed happy to be there, but none seemed quite as excited as Psychedelic Furs front man Richard Butler.

What does it mean to go back to high school without John Hughes? To begin an academic year without the bard of high school around? Is it a bit like Mickey Mouse without Walt Disney, the muse no longer tethered to its artist? Like the Western without John Ford, free to wander off on a permanent tangent? Or rather, is it an invitation to right the ...

This year, the nerds took over the Emmys. "30 Rock" scribe Matt Hubbard, picking up his Emmy for comedy writing, set the stage for a geek-filled evening by thanking "Walter Patterson for punching me in the 8th grade and turning me into a comedy writer." Immediately after, Jon Cryer -- still known to millions of 1980s movie fans as the lovelorn geek ...

The Psychedelic Furs , in concert Saturday at the House of Blues in Anaheim , have been together for more than 30 years , and produced seven studio albums.